Krčméry is also grateful to the surrounding hospitals for taking on several more serious cases. The police are also willing. "When the food runs out, they bring it themselves. Today, for example, the chief of police, who is off duty, was here and brought some food from home." Krčméry and his team was also handing out sweets.

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Vladimír Krčméry: Sane people help by example

On the evening of Tuesday, December 20, 2022, the leading Slovak epidemiologist and infectologist, Vladimír Krčméry, died. He was 62 years old. He had bilateral pneumonia. Just a few days before his death, he was still helping those who needed it the most. The report is from the refugee camp in Kúty, where he kept going despite his health problems. Photos are not arranged.

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Boris Németh

professional photographer, Týždeň

He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where he completed his doctoral studies in 2011. Currently, he works at the school as an external teacher of reportage photography. He has exhibited in Slovakia and abroad. Since 2006 he has been a photographer for the magazine .týždeň.